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wifi: ath12k: Introduce the container for mac80211 hw
authorKarthikeyan Periyasamy <[email protected]>
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:58:56 +0000 (07:58 +0200)
committerKalle Valo <[email protected]>
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:39:48 +0000 (19:39 +0200)
commit6db6e70a17f6fb3f2cfae31bb212a2179d0f6e6b
tree60ddc411b492f936ffb1a99661ccb880876f013d
parentb856f023b40fa7735ca19de433fc1307d69c36d0
wifi: ath12k: Introduce the container for mac80211 hw

To support multi link operation, we need to combine all the link/pdev
under a single wiphy. This avoids the overhead of synchronization
across multiple hardware instances in both the cfg80211 and mac80211
layers. Currently, each link/pdev is registered as separate wiphy,
tightly coupled with link/pdev/radio (ar) structure. To enable single
wiphy registration within the chip, we decouple the wiphy data entity from
the link/pdev/radio (ar) structure and move it under the chip (ab)
structure with a new data container (ath12k_hw) structure. This approach
improves scalability for future multi link operation support.

mac80211 hw private data structure diagram
------------------------------------------

Now After

 +---------------------+                          +---------------------+
 |mac80211 hw priv data|                          |mac80211 hw priv data|
 |                     |                          |                     |
 |                     |                          |                     |
 |                     |                          |                     |
 |                     |                          |   ath12k_hw (ah)    |
 |                     |                          |                     |
 |                     |  +------------------->   |                     |
 |    ath12k (ar)      |                          |   +-------------+   |
 |                     |                          |   |             |   |
 |                     |                          |   | ath12k (ar) |   |
 |                     |                          |   |             |   |
 |                     |                          |   |             |   |
 |                     |                          |   +-------------+   |
 |                     |                          |                     |
 |                     |                          |                     |
 +---------------------+                          +---------------------+

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Link: https://msgid.link/[email protected]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/reg.c
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